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Action

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.